Example sentences of "[noun] billion a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside suppliers are an integral part of the carmaking business : GM spends some $30 billion a year with its North American suppliers alone ; Ford $17 billion . |
| 2 | Jeffrey Sachs , a Harvard economist who has advised the Polish government , has suggested that an aid package of $30 billion a year for five years might be in order . |
| 3 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 4 | Szeliga has a promotional budget of £1 million this year to carve a slice of the UK market for loudspeakers , which he estimates to be worth £50 million , and an R&D budget of up to £20 million over five years to develop amplifiers , compactdisc players and cassette decks , a sector estimated to be worth £1 billion a year in Britain . |
| 5 | Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association . |
| 6 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 7 | The problem which the Chancellor faced was that failure to tackle the fiscal deficit could not only leave him having to borrow nearly £1 billion a week in the coming year . |
| 8 | The church tax reaps a handsome £5 billion a year for the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the Jewish community , or about two-thirds of their total income . |
| 9 | In a drive against counterfeiting , the association is asking member companies , which sell drugs worth £3 billion a year to the NHS , for ‘ greater openness ’ when they detect fraud . |
| 10 | The Government spend about £3 billion a year on research and development , which is a higher proportion of gross domestic product than Japan spends , but I hear what my hon. Friend says . |
| 11 | AS Controller of the Navy , Vice-Adml Sir Kenneth Eaton is responsible for spending some £3 billion a year on procuring ships and equipment . |
| 12 | Money released on that scale could make a vital contribution to closing a gap of about £3 billion a year in investment in affordable , rented accommodation over Britain as a whole , the report states . |
| 13 | What Delors had in mind was aid worth £10 billion a year for ten years . |
| 14 | But to prove we are a nation of animal lovers we spending a staggering £2.4 BILLION a year on gourmet grub and luxury presents for our furry friends . |
| 15 | ‘ It is projected to average £33 billion annually to the turn of the century and grow to £45 billion a year for the first decade of the new century . |
| 16 | Fiona Gately , marketing manager with Food from Britain , urged producers not to ignore the catering market , which is worth £7 billion a year in food purchases . |
| 17 | Manufacturing investment , narrowly defined , averaged £9.8 billion a year between 1974 and 1979 and £9.8 billion a year between 1979 and 1990 at constant 1985 prices . |
| 18 | Manufacturing investment , narrowly defined , averaged £9.8 billion a year between 1974 and 1979 and £9.8 billion a year between 1979 and 1990 at constant 1985 prices . |
| 19 | His government pledged to increase its environmental aid by 50 per cent to $1.4 billion a year from 1993 . |
| 20 | That is worth about £2 billion a year of the overseas markets won by the industry serving the North sea . |
| 21 | But Government put more than £2 billion a year into UK farming now and would put an extra £2.4 billion in over the next three years . |
| 22 | According to the Health and Safety Executive it costs British Industry more than £2 billion a year in absenteeism . |
| 23 | The Chancellor believes that measure alone will give an overall cash flow benefit of nearly £2 billion a year in both the next two tax years and reduce the ACT mountain by £300 million a year . |
| 24 | Mortgage interest relief , for example , which cost £1.25 billion a year in lost revenue at the time Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 , is currently running at a total of £6.5 billion annually . |
| 25 | The report 's publication followed a conference at which it was estimated that older people were then spending upwards of £14 billion a year in the marketplace . |
| 26 | This saved Mexico $3.8 billion a year in debt-servicing costs — and dissuaded many banks from fleeing across the Rio Grande . |
| 27 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 28 | That is the amount conceded by John Major to the EC budget , swelling the Brussels coffers managed by Commission President Jacques Delors to £64.4 billion a year by 1999 . |
| 29 | , The UN Secretariat has come up with a figure of $165 billion a year for saving the world 's environment . |
| 30 | MULTINATIONAL firms spend at least $10 billion a year on international telephone calls , and get a lousy deal . |